Head-ON With Robyn Roxanne Kincaid - Friday-On-the-Porch, 20 February 2026, Head-ON With Roxanne Kincaid

Episode Date: February 21, 2026

Dumbass Diocletian loses . . . throws tantrum. 

The password is tantrum. Here we go, live from behind the corn phone curtain. It's head-on with Roxanne Kincaid. Three hours of cussin and discussing with America's only liberal transbilly elitist right here, right now, on the head-on radio network. Brought to you in part by Cole River Mountain Watch,

who invites you to be part of the uprising against mountaintop removal, CRMW, dot net. And now from high in the hills of West by God, Virginia, here she is. Roxanne Kincaid. Well, howdy. And here we go, off and running on this 20th day of February, 2006. This is the horn. Headon. Dot Live is where you'll find us on the interweb tubes. That's where you go. If you'd like to be part of the Merry Wacky Zany, Real Time Madcap Multimedia, extravaganza. That is the horn chat room in the three hours in which this.

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Live on Blue Sky. me at Robin Rocks, R-O-B-Y-N-R-O-X dot B-S-G-E-S-Gye. And we'll, it's a, it's a shameless effort to build the community further as we find ourselves in the midst of, you know, we're in year two of the Trump shitstorm. Yeah. Hi, I'm Roxanne. It's Friday on the front porch, and that means here in about an hour or so, we will go over the river and through the woods to the old holler tree. We sublet from the kebler elves, wherein we keep the extraordinary, ordinary roundtable, around which we gather each and every Friday. And it's real easy to jump in on that, too. If you're new to the program, if you're just hearing about this over on blue sky, you know, we've been around here for 22 years. And hopefully we'll be around for several more. But there's, if you're new, there's nothing like this program.

There is no, no program like this anywhere. Left, right, center, or, you know, anarcho-sindicalist, whatever. We're not, we're not like those gross creatures over, you know, the weird hangers on. to Pink Shrek, you know, Joe Rogaine. And there's nothing, there's nothing on the left like what we do here either. So welcome and jump in the conversation if you feel so inclined. And, well, let me check here real quick. Well, we'll get into all of this in the day's doings in fairly short order.

Every program here at the Horn, however, begins with gratitude, and this program is no different, because there is no advertising here. There's nothing but the goodwill of a community that frankly recognizes the uniqueness of this attempt, this effort, long running, though it may be, at independent, commercial free, non-capitalist, non-profit-driven, independent, progressive liberal radio. And so thanks go out to our 20th day of the month subscribers and contributors via PayPal. So thank you so much to Charlie. Charlie finished off Ralph's challenge from yesterday. And so that takes us down to $3,500. Thanks as well to Reverbo, the human man out in Colorado. Thank you, Armand.

Thank you, Vincent. Thank you, Ralphs. Thank you to Dr. John, down in Alabama. Thank you all for being partial sponsors of the program. So where we stand, we have six programs left, including this one, to finish the month of February. And $3,500 is the unfunded deficit for the program. It's scary. As Jerry Reid, San Francisco.

and the theme song to Smokey and the Bandit, we got a long way to go and a short time to get there. But what I was saying earlier, it is Friday on the front porch, and if you've never done that before, there's an incredibly easy way to get into that conversation, namely over at head-on.com live where there's a button at the top.

You just press the button and boom. almost miraculously you are carried over to the old holler tree that we sublet from the aforementioned kepler elves perengi etc packlids and uh and uh wherein we gather each and every friday where uh jeremy and roger in oregon uh do the moderate and duties speaking of which, if you are listening live, well, feel free to pop by the aforementioned Mary Wacky Zaney, where Chi Woo's hanging out as is Ralphs and Squeaky and Sylvie, all capably moderated by Horn Chief Agronautomist, Chief Mathematician,

Bud Trimber Emeritus and Zimmergist extraordinaire, Roger, in Oregon. Ah, where do, well, you heard the, you heard the password, I'm quite certain. Tantrum, because the, uh, world's biggest, most incontinent septuagenarian toddler, threw one today after he got his ass handed to him by the Supreme Court of the United States. I know. I guess I was as shocked as anybody. But by the same token, I'm going to give myself a little bit of a pat on the back because once again, once again, Roxanne's theory of the judicial systems of the United States has proven to. true. We call it the 3M rule. No, no, no, no, not Minnesota mining and manufacturing, but rather manage the morons, punish the mean ones, and above all, for the love of God and all that's holy, protect the money, take care of the money. Morons, mean ones, and money. Morons, meanies,

money. Three years of law school, years of legal practice, and boom, that's what you come up with. It really is that simple. Everything that happens in the law can fit nicely into one of those three buckets. As Brother Deacon Asa asks, how does one go about listening to the live show on blue skies, such as it am being streamed. Well, the stream is picked up and linked over there. So Miss Micah is putting up a show post every evening right about showtime. And there's a direct link to said stream. And again, I'm investigating, we're investigating.

I don't think I could do it on a full-time basis, but taking especially, you know, when I'm here in Parkersburg, which I will not be for much longer, heading home this Sunday. If, and it's a gigantic freaking if, you might recall this time about last year. Oh, okay. Brother Deacon Asa, I'm misshapen. Micah, I'm misshapen. and noting, I'm just posting show threads right now. I don't have the broadcast ready yet.

It's coming soon. She said, I thought we'd discuss that a day or two. This is for you, Brother Deacon. I still want to talk to Asa about the best way to go about it. There's that. She's not mirroring the stream yet, but we'll get there. My mistake. But no, the thing that I am contemplating, and I know nothing about this place called Twitchy, but apparently blue sky is. is letting people run their Twitch streams on the platform. Listen, I'm just the talent. I'm not even supposed to know how a microphone works. Back in the good old days, when people had like union contracts and things like that,

the talent sat in the chair and behind the microphone and waited for someone to point. at them and then started talking. And the producer would have a Thorazine dart blowgun or a or your average talent would be affixed with a shock collar. So if they tried to touch anything technical, they would learn quickly not to do that. Okay, that sounds good, Micah. But there would be some significant logistical changes, but I like the idea of maybe doing a little bit of video, maybe an hour's worth, or maybe doing a show once a week or something. But this is always going to be primarily a radio program because I'm primarily a radio girl.

And it is, well, not to get all Nora Desmond or anything, but it is my metier. in radio we didn't have faces um Twitchy Lee says isn't there a medicine for that oh you know you there may be but I'm sure it's

unaffordable at this point um but um but Mika says eventually she'll pop by the front porch and give everybody a tech briefing

LOL yeah that'll you know and i'll i don't know i'll i'll have some raw ether or something just to make it get through to me all the better right a little bit of a program note as usual on evenings like this when i don't know exactly what time nor does she that victoria will be getting off work i may have to end the program a little bit early or i'd love to be able to just make it all the way to 8 p.m. as we Eastern time as we as is the schedule.

But like I said, I'm looking to go home on Monday back to the gorge. But it's a mite, it's a might, it's a might sketchy proposition right now because while we've had several days of thawing and near 70 degree temperatures, I mean, I have felt the warmth of that, that, that, that, that, that, bright orange thing in the sky on a couple of occasions and it was like a a chorus of the heavenly host just warm and nice and well it's still February and that shit ain't going to last so both here and out down on the gorge um we may have well it's not so much here but it down on the gorge winter storm warning, lake effect snow, up to five inches of snow. And you know what your humble ostus is not going to do?

She is not going to do the dumb-ass dipshit thing that she did about this time last year and drive home in the middle of a blizzard. I love that little Ford sedan. She has been trusty and sure-footed. But if it's nasty on Sunday, I'll be staying right. here. By the way, Ralph said that she'll, in order to help us bring the number down from $3,500 bucks, goodness me, $25 challenge in note of the fact that, well, how do you like that? The DOJ actually deleted a record in the EPS, the Trump Steen files.

Roger Solenberger reporting No, the DOJ deleted a record revealing that jizzling Maxwell has potential blackmail over nitwit Nero. Roger Salenberger pointing out the document, which was reposted after I reported the removal shows Maxwell's lawyers possess three FBI interviews with an underage Trump accuser that has not been released to the public.

Well, time to serve those sorry petty foggers with a little subpoena action. And speaking of subpoenas, a little something, and we'll get into the big news of the day, the three M's and our most puissant dread sovereign Supreme Catholic majesties here in fairly short order. But before we go there, one observation coming from CNN that I caught. earlier in the day, you know, in yesterday's program, we talked about the deposition of Les Wexner. I swear I haven't yet, but eventually at some point I'm going to refer to him as Les Nessman, I can't help it. It's just the weirdness of my brain. But Les Wexner, the vastly wealthy old creep over in the Buckeye state, Ohio, you know, the guy who owns Victoria's

secret, bed, bath, and beyond, whatever, and has spent a lifetime surrounding himself with beautiful young models. Remember, the dead guy Brunel was trafficking underage models to Jeffrey Epstein and they were bosom buddies and, well, they, uh, he talked a little bit of about that in his deposition yesterday there at his mansion in in in in in in in in in the state and it really is kind of kind of surprising because people have begun watching the deposition and paying attention to everything that's going on in it but before I go there uh Roger Solemberger pointing out that what the Justice Department had scrubbed from the Trumpstein file database was a document about a woman who told the FBI that Donald Trump sexually assaulted her when she was a child.

It disappeared Wednesday, came back Thursday afternoon, and he says it's unclear where the DOJ deleted the document in the first place, and unclear why they put it back up. the woman was said to be a victim of Jeffrey Epstein in the early 1980, early to mid-1980s. Well, the document also shows the FBI conducted not just one but four interviews with this woman who accused Nitwit Niro. And as Salenberger says, while the government gave all four of those interviews to Maxwell's legal team ahead of her trial, the government gave only one of those four interviews to we, the people. of the United States trying to form that more perfect union in the Trumpstein files. But anyway, back to the less Wexner. Why is it going to be this hard?

Deposition. Well, Sarah Fitzpatrick was on CNN this morning today. It should be noted that she was one of the first reporters to do extensive interviews with Jeffrey Epstein's survivors. And Ms. Fitzpatrick was kind of shocked by what showed up, turned out, developed in that deposition. Family there. So what are people missing when it comes to Andrew, the UK, and sort of how this thing has finally moved to this point.

Look, I think this is an absolutely explosive development. The fact that Prince Andrew is actually potentially facing some kind of criminal investigation and perhaps accountability. But I think what's missing in this conversation is the fact that Prince Andrew has been on, his conduct, these allegations have been public for so long in great detail. But what the case epitomizes is how the structures, especially for those in the elite, whether it's legal laws and libel laws in the UK, whether it's just the mechanisms of great lawyers and public relations, there were so many people who, just even in my case, I probably sent hundreds and hundreds of emails over the course of the time of my reporting to the palace, to his lawyers. there's a tremendous amount of available evidence just in plain sight that thousands of people have had access to over the years. Yeah, so we're all sort of, there's very, there's interesting things we all want to get to, flight logs, for example, those kinds of details. But you're saying there's also evidence of every person trying to get information, check information, victims putting in statements, all of that is out for everyone to see. And this was known to the palace, to the heads of state.

I mean, this is not kind of in some abstract spot. And so I think it really goes to show that they're, you know, it is very, very difficult to get this information out into the open, but someone just has to be willing to take that risk. And I think we're only seeing that now. So here's where that is super relevant, because once you get in court, we should say, Andrew is not being arrested, raided to sexual allegations. It's about information he had a trade convoy that he might have shared. with Epstein. That we know of. Yeah, that we know of. But as a result, out of these documents,

more and more things are coming out. So you've seen in New Mexico there reopening an investigation into alleged illegal activity at Epstein's former Zorro Ranch. So do you think that we're now going to see more reopenings here and there? And are the victims ready for that? Look, the victims have been ready. It is incredibly painful for them. It is incredibly traumatic, and that they are worried about their safety, but they have been calling for this accountability, especially in the last six months in which they believe that there is a cover-up happening in real-time

by their own government, meaning an effort to suppress information. And I think the most important thing... That's how they see it. That's how they see it. An effort to repress. Absolutely. My law enforcement sources,

even within the FBI and the Department of Justice, often use that same phrasing. You know, why has there's been this effort to prevent information coming out as opposed to that. I think the key point is, though, yes, there may be investigations opened, but we have seen the Department of Justice spend millions and millions of dollars, taxpayer dollars, as well as use hundreds of DOJ attorneys to review these documents, but we haven't seen any of those resources pushed towards new material investigative steps, following up on new leads,

following up on documents, following up on tips. Anything that to us would seem pretty obvious has not yet occurred. We saw Bondi last week testified before Congress, and there were literal witnesses sitting steps behind her who have tried in very hard to submit information to the FBI, and she would not even turn around. So we're this kind of preoccupation with the documents themselves, the act of showing the documents. You're saying that it doesn't have to end there. Like the point of seeing it all is to potentially investigate. In theory, we're not seeing any steps being taken kind of at a small scale or at a large scale. So I'm skeptical that we're going to see, unless there's a major, major change, I'm skeptical we're going to see any new, really impactful.

And in the meantime, we're seeing like Norway, we've got a prime minister charged. We got in France two investigations open, Latvia opening a human trafficking probe. I want to play for you one thing because what we're seeing here in the U.S. is more conversation, more depositions. So for example, you have Victoria Secrets owner, Les Wexner. in question for his relationship or ties to Epstein by the House Oversight Committee specifically, okay? And video is starting to come out about the deposition, and I want to show you an example of a moment in the conversation. He had just told lawmakers that the FBI had never spoken to him about Epstein, and as he's talking, he gets a note. So here's an example of that.

All the things were inventoryed that wasn't work for me or Jeffrey. It was just regularly done. It's incredible. I mean, it's an amazing moment caught on tape. But to me, the even more important moment that you see there. Well, stand by, because you may not have heard what the microphone picked up. I don't know what kind of wartime consuliary Les Wexner has. And I know a lot of lawyers.

We have lawyers here in the Horn family community congregation, whom I have no doubt whatsoever have conducted depositions and never said anything like this to their clients in said deposition. What the petty fogger said to octogenarian Les Wexner, Billable Rick, by the way, says, I think you should just call Les Wexner Lex Luthor, since Wexner is evil and Les Nessman is a good man well they don't you know what they don't they don't give the copper cob award or the bucky news hawk award to bad men billable it's the silver sow johnny right you are less um yes was a good man a very good man indeed uh especially if you knew the people from whom

Richard Sanders drew the composite of Les Nestman. As I did. But what the lawyer says to his client is and I laughed there and this is

no laughing matter. He leaned over with a microphone. Look, there are a couple of hard and fast rules in the universe. One of which is always assumed that a firearm is loaded I can think of any number of people who might still be with us on the planet

in living form had that been the case always assume a firearm is loaded and always assume that a microphone is hot unless you can absolutely verify that it ain't well apparently nobody ever told this pettifogger that because after the answer that you heard less Wexner give, his lawyer leaned over and said, I'll fucking kill you if you answer another question with more than five words. I kill you. And of course, they both laughed merrily because,

well, attorney-client privilege is such that the aforementioned pettifogger probably knows how many little girls, how many children, less Wexner. fucked during his salad days. But that's, you know, that was what was said. So, you know, let's finish the clip. The fact that he's never been questioned by the FBI, never been questioned by the FBI in over almost two decades of federal investigations into Jeffrey Epstein, a man who had, if not, so much material information.

And we have had complaints. I mean, there were reports to the FBI, to NYPD in 1996 stemming from Wexner's, from a victim that had spent time at Wexner's home. So it just like, it defies logic, and it really makes me question our confidence in the FBI and in our justice system. Oh, sir, I hope we can have you back. It seems like you're very much on this and giving me some new things to think about. I really appreciate it. Thank you for being here. Yeah, and that does dovetail with what...

with the challenge that Ralph's made, and that would get us down, by the way, to $34.50 if somebody will kick in $25,000. Do you remember, what, last week or so, that statement by Gisland Maxwell's Petty Fogger, who said, Donald Trump, neither Donald Trump nor Bill Clinton had. anything to do with Epstein's sordid business. And only my client can prove that, but she won't do it unless she gets presidential clemency. Well, that's what you, you know, that's out of court. And it's a representation of what the facts might be. That's a ginormous might there.

But here's the thing. It's a lie. Going back to the Solenberger substack piece, he writes, this document shows that in choosing to withhold three of the four interviews from the Epstein files, the DOJ has granted Maxwell potential blackmail on the sitting president of the United States. That depends, of course, on what the victim said in those interviews, but it doesn't look good for Trump. However, if the victim exonerated him, the public needs to know that as well, and you'd think he'd see common ground there. Maxwell has held this leverage over Trump since her team received the files in batches from DOJ prosecutors as a standard part of her trial prep in 2021 in April, July, and October, the record shows. The victim was suing Epstein's estate at the time, settling with the reported payout in December 2020. 21. But if DOJ had released those interviews with the Epstein files, as it appears the law absolutely requires, Solenberger says, any leverage Maxwell had there would be gone. Instead, Trump's DOJ,

starring Pam Blondie and Tom, Todd Blanchie and Cash Patel, who by the way ran up a $75,000 tab zooming over to Milan Cortina to watch men's hockey, not women's. Once again, the women's team kicking ass and taking names and getting the gold. But now, Cash likes men's hockey, real men's hockey. Yeah, they let her keep that leverage, which is rather astonishing. And, you know, in this clip from CNN, we had the standard question of, you know, Why did the DOJ let this go for so long? Epstein was raping children back into the 80s,

and apparently so too was dumbass diocletian. Well, let's see, the 80s. That would be Ronald Reagan's DOJ. And then George H.W. Bush is DOJ, then Bill Clinton's DOJ, then W. Bush's DOJ, and then Obama's DOJ, and Netwood DeRos' DOJ. I think it's a little much to expect any kind of action from Merrick the Meek in Biden's DOJ. But again, I go back to that thing that keeps tickling my brain in a not fun way, by the way. Reagan, Bush, W., Trump, all along the way there is one man, one man, one man, one incredibly powerful man with a taste for making criminality disappear.

Bill Barr, Bill Barr, whose father wrote pornographic sci-fi. about child sex slaves, who was the first man ever to give Jeffrey Epstein, who had no credentials whatsoever, a job teaching young boys, Bill Barr, who, for all we know, might have been the male voice on the end of the line the night before the end of the line for Jeffrey Epstein when he used an unsecured cell phone to call his mother who had been dead for years and years and years and years and years. And the voice on the other end of the line was male. Some things simply can't be explained away, can they? No, no, they cannot. I will fucking kill you if you answer another question with more than five words. Yeah, you do that because we can't.

cameras on you smile and you laugh and you know he isn't kidding i mean the peddy fogger won't fucking kill it but she said laying a finger to the side of her nose he may work with people who and the the document that's missing from solenberger's substack he says is an evidence catalog showing that those interviews were among the non-witness material that doj prosecutors produced for Maxwell's defense team. It's proof that Maxwell's attorneys have those three interviews. It's also proof that all four of those interviews, part of DOJ's Maxwell trial evidence,

should in fact have been released to the public in the Epstein files. Well, why aren't they in the trial record of jizzling Maxwell's own? And this all makes it look ever so much worse. But he doesn't care about that. He's as crooked as a dog's hind leg. Makes it look all the worse for Todd Blanchie, who is such a noble pleader that he got his very own client,

Orange Julius Geiser, hung out to dry on 34 felony charges in the state of New York, for which he is fully and finally convicted. Which kind of brings us to the past, word, you know, tantrum. A much awaited opinion came down from our most puissant, dread, sovereign, Supreme Catholic majesties today. Most of you already know this. We'll probably be talking about it at some length when we go over the river and through the woods to the old holler tree we sublet from the Kepler else. And they, it didn't take a lot of, I mean, I feel like the opinion that they dropped today regarding tariffs and emergency presidential powers.

Emergency. Emergency. I'm pretty confident that, you know, a fresh-faced 22, 23-year-old kid having graduated college and having just sat for the LSAT, the law school entrance test, could probably reach the same correct conclusion. and not take nearly as much time. The Supreme Court said today in a six to three verdict that was made up of various concurrences and agreements in the result, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But with three dissents, namely Beerboof and Brat Babbat Kavanaugh,

I'm sure his dissent was authored by his law clerk's squea and quefe. joined by, of course, Sammy Bad Breath and Clarence, Pubes on the Coke Can, Fappy Thomas, both dear friends of Har Har-Harr Crow and Leonard Leo, Har-Har and Lili. I say that someone without even a legal degree, a law degree, could have come to that conclusion, because they looked,

our most puissant, dread sovereign, Supreme Catholic justices did. they looked at the statute in question, which came all the way, it goes all the way back in time to 17, no, 1977, and they said, huh, the word tariff doesn't appear anywhere in this piece of legislation. And while the president of the United States is in charge of foreign policy, treaties still have to be ratified by the Senate, and issues of trade are exclusively the province

of the Congress, even a Congress that doesn't want that province as this maggot gang of cowards and knee walkers and losers and pet and put pads and cut purses and ditch dwellers and highwaymen even that kind of a congress just because you don't want to use your power doesn't mean the power doesn't belong to you and that's what the supreme court said today and jesus it made nitwit nero pissed he gave a statement in which he declared this is another one of those moments. Let's see. Let's think back to some other presidents in American history. Try to imagine Abraham Lincoln declaring, well, the South has fired upon Fort Sumter. I wanted to be a good boy, but I'm afraid I shall have to call up troops to quell this rebellion. Or, Beodore Roosevelt. Be a

good boy who walks softly and carries a big stick like a good boy. That's just a couple to, you know, just right off the top of my head. Or how about Andrew Jackson? I wanted to be a good boy, but I'm going to have to ride down to South Carolina and hang the first secessionist I see as high as Heyman and hang every secessionist that I see thereafter, because I'm a good boy. Well, those are the words that the toddler in chief used today. In his tantrum, there's our password, in his tantrum over the Supreme Court's ruling. And by the way, yesterday there were two photographs taken. I'm sure there were many more than two.

But there were two particular photographs taken. One was of Joe Biden. You remember him, right? He was president a few years ago, and every time you turned on the goddamn TV set, there sat Jake Tapper or Dana Bash or any number of talking heads on the various networks saying, Jesus, H. Christ, Joe Biden's so old. Oh, he's losing his mind. Listen to him. He stutters and stumbles all the time. He can barely get a sentence out of his mouth. My God, his brain is failing before our very eyes. What kind of president in his right mind doesn't recognize George Clooney. Yeah.

Well, yesterday there were some photos taken of the aforementioned Joe Biden hanging out on the commuter, the commuter train between Delaware and D.C. somewhere. Joe likes the train. Trains are fun. Great way to travel if you have a competent rail system in your country. But there he was. He was talking to people. people wanting to get selfies with him, smiling around him, happy to see him. Probably miss him at this point in time. On the other hand, there was the photo of Newtwit Niro sitting at his Board of Peace, that's B-O-R-E-D, sound asleep with the contented smile of a toddler who's just dropped a big load in his didey. maybe Jake Tapper can write a book about that too.

No, no, no, no. That would never sell. That's just Trump being Trump. Ha-ha. Mm-hmm. Oh, thank you so much. Ralph's challenges met this evening. Thank you so, so much, anonymous friend.

So we are down to 3425, 3425. And that does help immensely. As it stands now, we've got, what did I say, six broadcast, you know, if we got down to, if we could raise 425 this evening, that'd get us down to three grand and moving into next week, that would mean that all we had to do was, all we had to do, my eyes just rolled back in my head, all we'd have to do is raise $500 per show, and we'd finish February miraculously fully funded. but we're going to go to the clip here in a minute who's a good boy who's a good boy and standing next to nitwit nero at this meeting of some governors republican governors is of course Howard nutlick who is also all over the Epstein files and somehow is trying to brazen it out and stay in office, at least until daddy gives him a preemptive pardon. Oh, how about that? Sometimes in the universe, my brain, whatever.

We in New York pointing out, hang him high as Haman, next week is Purim. Hmm? Jewish Halloween, sort of. And the story of Haman and other characters is much celebrated in that. in those festivities.

What can I say, Lee? Synchronicity. Oh, that's fascinating. Apropos of nothing, but so freaking cool, Kim in New York knew I would immediately go, what? The discovery of Seneca, the elders lost Roman history. Get out of town. Kim said, this is fascinating from one Roman history geek to another for a pallet cleanser

when you have time. Yes, you know, the palate of the brain. Maybe something to consider prior to falling asleep instead of falling asleep with the shitstorm swirling through my mind. Oh, that looks for it. Seneca, the elders lost Roman. It makes you wonder what else is lost out there. Because so much was.

We have a lot of references to ancient world. works, but we don't have the works themselves. I don't know, somewhere in the future, eventually somebody might discover, or it may have just been burned in a monastery for heat at some point in time in the distant past. The source document for the synoptic gospels, that would be really cool, but what would be super cool would be, what do you want to bet the synoptic, the source document, cue for the synoptic gospel has nothing about virgin births in it maybe maybe it's maybe it's in some some dungeon under the Vatican if you've ever read another roadside attraction by tom robins might know that uh well

there's something like that in that book it's worth a read oh i can't wait to watch this thank you Kim. Thank you. And thank you, Brian. We are down to 3415. When I do get home, it'll be nice to have my ballpoint pen and my brown paper bag back with me. Thank you, Brian. Thank you so much. All right. Coffee breaks over. Back on our heads. Although I will say, I've had a good mental health day last night and I mentioned it yesterday. Victoria and I have been puppy sitting, doggy sitting. There are these three sweet, sweet, sweet girls at her mom's place. And we went over and stayed the night there and kept them company and took them out and everything.

My God, it rained last night. and those sweet babies, they do not like thunderstorms. One of them practically crawled. Well, she did. She crawled up onto my lap and sat and trembled when the thunder rolled through, and all I could do was pet her and say, it's, it'll be okay, baby. It'll be all right. We won't let the mean thunder get you.

We didn't. Yeah. Oh, they're sweet, sweet doggies. Four wonderful kitty cats, too. and they're nice they're very sweet kitty cats and they do love their treats no it's been it's been a lovely couple it's been a lovely day and a half or so and after the program this evening we'll go over and check on them again and i think they like their auntie roxan because their auntie roxan loves them very much there pallet cleansing remember we're pallet cleansing but speaking earlier today the

toddler in chief oh he was mad because they told him that he's not God, he's not the God Emperor of America, that there's just some things he can't do. You'd think he'd be grateful for the things that they say he can. He can order the murder of innocent American civilians, and our most puissant dread sovereign Supreme Catholic majesties will say, meh, he can trample the rights of immigrants.

take health care away from marginalized communities. He can make it more likely that adolescents will kill themselves. And the Supreme Court will go, ha, who cares? Don't fuck with the money. Finster. How many times have I told you not to play with the dirty money? Somehow Finster keeps making his way into the program. And the Supreme Court told him today. No, you can't just impose tariffs because you think he can. They served as a Mirabala Dick to check on his limitless ambitions. And so we got this earlier today. It's very modest in my ask of other countries and businesses because I wanted to do,

and it's very important. I want to be very well-behaved because I wanted to do anything. I didn't want to do anything that would affect the decision. of the court. Because I understand the court. I understand how they are very easily swayed. I want to be a good boy. Jesus fucking Christ. I want to be a good boy. Well, drugs are bad. Being a long time abuser of stimulants, Adderall and such like, make him, well, he's

Well, he's reverting into his second childhood. It's almost like he can hear the voice of his long-dead mother, who really didn't want much to do with him as a child, and you can't really blame her, can you? Oh, who's a good boy, Danny? Who's a good boy? Oh, look, he's ten years old, and he stopped potty and in his pants. Who's a good boy?

Oh, but he raged, and he railed. He's deeply disliked. appointing the Democrats on the court are thrilled, but they will automatically vote no. They're an automatic no, just like in Congress. They're an automatic no. Meanwhile, that miserable shit-eating Henry Quay are from Texas is sitting somewhere saying, what am I, chopped liver? Because he votes yes with Daddy more often than he should.

Those Democrats are against anything that makes America's strong, healthy, and great again. They're also, frankly, a disgrace to our nation, those justices. They're an automatic no, no matter how good a case you have, it's a no. You can't not do loyalty. It's one thing you can do with some of our people. And he says he's not going to follow the order anyway. It's the old, having spoken of Andrew Jackson earlier.

it's that old Andrew Jackson thing how many divisions does Justice Tani or does Justice Marshall control yeah you tell me I can't but I'm going to do it anyway that was with reference to committing a genocide against millions of indigenous Americans the very reason why

a lot of indigenous folks in this country refuse to carry a $20 bill on their person. Four fives, two tens, a ten and two fives, ten and ten ones, a ten, a five, and five ones, twenty ones. No $20 bills. Really? We're going to do this as a little creature just landed on the laptop. Oh, don't pay it any mind. That's just my little ladybug.

And one of the conversations, well, As Ralph's pointed out earlier, Beer Boofin, Bubbub, Brad Kavanaugh and his law clerk's squee and quiff had a plum coneption in his descent. It's almost like he was giving talking points.

Because Brat, with that little roly-poly bat-faced smile, roly-poly little bat-faced boy, Hi, Paul Simon. In his dissent, he said, So the court's decision is not likely to greatly restrict presidential tariff authority going forward. That's like basically Brat Kavanaugh saying, they're going to pay any attention to us anyway.

But the court's decision is likely to generate other serious practical consequences in the near term. Smooth. One issue will be refunds. refunds of billions of dollars would have significant consequences for the U.S. Treasury. The court says nothing today about whether and if so how the government should go about returning the billions of dollars that is collected from importers. You know, those importers who paid the refunds, who then passed those charges along to consumers, who ultimately, or tariffs who ultimately paid the tariffs out of their own pocket. But that process is likely to be a mess, as it was acknowledged.

at oral argument. Oh, you mean it's going to be a complicated mess to actually follow the law, brat? Jesus. As usual, the most sensible portion of the decision was in the concurrence, the separate concurrence authored by Katangi Brown Jackson and signed off on by Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. Those aforementioned, three Democrats you always say no. well they say no to fascism because this isn't supposed to be a fascist country and so yeah all it's already happening j b pritzker

and by the way i ran across this oh a few days ago it was some a puff piece by the washington post as if they're much worth paying attention to anymore 12 democrats to watch for In the 2028 presidential primaries, 12 Democrats. Hmm. I mean, Gavre's Newsom was in there. So was AOC.

Wes Moore of Maryland was in there. So too, Andy Brashear of Kentucky Stan. Nowhere to be found. J.D. Pritzker, who has done as much or more than anyone else to stand up, actually stand up. I'm not talking about meaming against him. Stand up against Newtwit Niro. In a letter to Nittwit Niro earlier today and released to the public,

he said, your tariff taxes wreaked havoc on farmers, enraged our allies and sent grocery prices through the roof. This morning, your hand-picked Supreme Court justices notified you that they are also unconstitutional. Ooh, that's going to smart. But this is even worse. On behalf of the people of Illinois, I demand a refund. And let's remember when he uses demand, he uses it in the legal sense because J.B. Pritzker has a real live, no-kitting, more than a cup of coffee in law school law degree from Duke, which is pretty darn respectable when it comes to law schools.

On behalf of the people of Illinois, I demand a refund of $1,700 for every family in Illinois. There are 5,105,448 households in my state, bringing the total damages you owe to, Jesus Christ, $8,679,261,661,600. He went on, that's some top-shelf ciphering. The Supreme Court has ruled that this is yet one more unconcern. constitutional act by you and your administration. This letter and the attached invoice, Invoiced, oh, Jesus, he invoiced him. Stand as an official notice that compensation is owed to the people of Illinois, and if you do not comply, we will pursue further action, and he means it. Meanwhile, Scott Bessent, who reached recently, he and his hubby, sold the Pink Pony Palace, or

whatever it was, in Charleston, South Carolina. I wonder if it has a ladybug problem. at a tidy profit said, uh, Americans will never see a refund. You know, it's interesting that $8 billion, $679,261,661,600, is really close to $10 billion, which is what Niro admitted that he stole

to pay into his board of peace, where he fell asleep with that gassy grin on his face. That Domnato Memoriae is going to be a sweet thing. Get him, J.B. But it's been that kind of day. Among other things, when he was throwing his tantrum earlier, he declared, and what a thing for a president to say?

Yeah, in his own words. But other alternatives will now be used to replace the ones that the court incorrectly rejected. We have alternatives. great alternatives. Could be more money. We'll take in more money. We'll take more money. Nice little country you got there.

You're ashamed of something to it. And we'll be a lot stronger for it. We're taking in hundreds of billions of dollars. We'll continue to do so. To show you how ridiculous the opinion is, however, the court said that I'm not allowed to charge even $1. I can't charge $1. can't charge a dollar

I would have used one penny but we don't make the pennies anymore we save money can't charge one dollar to any country under Aipa not one dollar notice how he keeps repeating himself

it's because he's having a hard time he's not looking at a teleprompter he's actually reading words on a page and every time he looks up and looks down, his mental acuity has failed enough, but he can't keep up with where he is on the page. So not one dollar, not one dollar. I'd say penny, but I can't say penny anymore because we're not making pennies. We're saving money. There are still pennies out there. Dumbass. You could say penny. I assume to protect other countries. This must have been done to protect

those other countries. Certainly not the United States of America, which they should. should be interested in protecting. That's what they're supposed to be protecting. But I am allowed to cut off any and all trade or business with that same country. In other words, I can destroy the trade. I can destroy the country. I'm even allowed to impose a foreign country destroying embargo. I can embargo. I can do anything I want, but I can't charge one dollar. There it is. In a nutshell. I can do anything I want. Anything I want. And I want two pieces of chocolate cake with extra ice cream. Don't forget about the strawberries.

Because that's not what it says. And that's not the way it even reads. I can do anything I want to do to them, but I can't charge any money. So I'm allowed to destroy the country, but I can't charge them a little fee. I could give them a little two-cent fee, but I cannot charge under any circumstances

I cannot. Oh, Dr. Freud. I can destroy the country, but I can't charge money. And as loathe as I am to agree with him, there's a certain truth in what he said. And it goes back to what I said only moments ago. Want to gun down American citizens in the streets, Donnie? Go right ahead.

I know, Micah, all caps. He's allowed to destroy the... Excuse me? Yeah, you can go down citizens in the streets. You can drive teenagers to suicide. You can tear down the very White House itself. You can kidnap people in the middle of the night and ship them to concentration camps in countries

where they've never even been before. But don't fuck with the money, mister. Charge them anything. Think of that. How ridiculous is that? I'm allowed to embargo them. I'm allowed to tell them you can't do business in the United States anymore. or we want you out of here.

But if I want to charge them $10, I can't do that. It's incorrect. Their decision's incorrect. But it doesn't matter because we have very powerful alternatives that have been approved by this decision. You know, they've been approved by the decision for those that thought they had us. For those that thought they had us.

What do you think he's really thinking about there for those that thought they had us? as nothing is the brain rot of the Trumpstein files in the back of thin gray settlings that yet slosh around between his ears and pass for brains and in which the spiro creaketes are screaming each to eat there's so much more but i suspect we're going to i hope we're going to have a really really good friday on the front of the front port conversation. Let's pop over and see if folks are ready to do some

cussing and discussing. Hey, Jeremy. Hey, Robin. How are you? Good, you. Let Roger go. I'm way behind tonight. I had to make a stop at a dock in the box. I had a plug dear, so I'm about an hour behind so Roger can talk. I'm good. I talked last night.

Okay. I'll listen. Roger. Oh, shit. Oh shit to you too. Oh, I'm sorry. I have to switch off the stream and turn on the microphone here and get the headset plugged in and all that. And I normally let know Jeremy goes first. So I've got a little time when you make the switch. So that was what that was about.

Well, first off with the good stuff, we started our Master Food Preserver Labs. And yes, I. did go up to Corvallis, and yes, I did do it here in town, which is why I was kind of absent the last two days, which will continue for a while because, anyhow, I get busy. But, anyhow, our lab, the first class, we did veggie stock and a lesson in knife skills and quenching and freezing broccoli and that kind of stuff. And next week, we're going to be doing apple pie filling and you can pairs. So it should be interesting and then there's all the other discussion and all that kind of stuff.

But as to the world stage, my God, things have been happening. Haven't they, Jess? Have you thought that Air Wesley Dingus out of Butler, Ohio, kind of has his after? in a ringer? Well, there's been a lot going on in the world, and I somehow missed that one. Well, it appears that Mayor Denghis ran on family values and ultra-conservative. And yeah, it's kind of a mega-type mayor. Please tell me, is his last name really Denghis? Yes, it is.

It's really Denghis. Goddess of irony. You're getting another rubber chain at midnight. And anyhow, a teenager, female, apparently family member, but not direct family, like, you know, maybe a niece or something like that. Anyhow, she was in his care and living in his house. And she felt kind of strange because her uncle Wesley, I guess, seemed to be invading her room a bit. So she set up a camera in her room while she was off at school. And when she came home, she discovered that Mayor Dingus was going into her room

and was going through her laundry basket and pulled out a pair of her underpants. Panty sniffer. Knew we were going there. He began sniffing her panties and rubbing his panties and rubbing his. crotch at the same time. So anyhow, he's out running around now on a $10,000 bail.

But anyhow, he's about to go to court because he's pled not guilty at a hearing. So maybe it's the Democrats that are the family of the party of family

values these days. Just a thought. And on the international stage, we have the fact that the United Kingdom has refused in any way, shape, or form to allow the United States Air Force to use any of its properties or anything to do with Iran, which means the United States truly cannot do what they want to do normally from Diego Garcia. where the big Air Force base is and all the rest of that, that they have used previously for activities in the Middle East. So, you know, it's kind of, you know, the UK's kind of putting the screws to Donnie. And then we have the Maryland sewage still.

Are you familiar with the Maryland? Yeah, I know more about this than I do about Mayor Denghis. Okay. Well, what I find kind of remarkable about it is that one would expect the director of health and human services to be a little upset because the tillage is coming from Washington, D.C., the federal territory, and the infrastructure there has failed because of a lack of maintenance on the part of the state. the federal government. And I spent a little bit of time last night trying to figure out why the people that, you know, are kind of worried about this, like health and human services, aren't all upset and getting down on the Department of Public Works or whatever the hell it is in D.C. For getting this taken care of because it's a threat to, you know, human health when you

pollute the Potomac River. And the only conclusion that I could come up with was that our head of health and human services got tired of the very small swimming hole that he was able to get into in Fall Creek Park with his nieces and nephews. And now that he has the entire Potomac, he figures it ought to kind of stay that way. Yes, that is kind of an obscure. observation. No, but I get it. Okay. Well, let's see. And there was that $10 billion transfer to Trump's personal account so that he can play the United Nations. And why isn't Congress up in arms about the theft of $10 billion out of the U.S. Treasury. Well, I mean, when you say Congress, Roger, you mean why isn't the Republican majority

in Congress up in arms? And the reason they're not up in arms, Roger, is because Newtwit, Nero has bound their arms behind their back, probably like he used to do to little girls. And it's just mind-boggling to me that they could have supported this whole bege boondoggle under the idea of saving the taxpayers money, creating efficiency, eliminating waste,

and being so fiscally conservative and not say a goddamn word about the theft of money already in the Treasury. It just kind of blows me away. And then there was the story out of Fulton County, Georgia. They finally discovered fraud in the election of 2024 in Fulton County, Georgia. There was a huge mailing set out for absentee ballot applications that were already

pre-filled in as much as would be possible for a mass mailing. These had their name on it, their headdress, things of that sort. So they send these out. The only problem is the pre-filled-in applications can only be sent legally from a relative. In other words, I could fill out one for my mother, send it to her, and say, Tom, please just sign this, send it in so you can get your absentee out. Well, what's remarkable about this is who it was that sent these out. It was the America Act.

Who is the backer behind the America path? I was going to say, run by. Elon Musk. And what happens, and what happens, Roger, I'm sorry to interrupt, but what happens when we, when we find out that that happened to a far greater degree, because remember, he ran a goddamn illegal lottery in Pennsylvania and Michigan under the same pretences. It was stolen.

I thought that was Wisconsin. Sorry, not to butt in. Maybe it was all three. I don't recall him doing anything about a lottery or anything up here, but I do remember him putting a lottery out when that one Wisconsin Supreme Court seat was up for grabs. Well, no, he did the, he did the, the, the million dollar giveaway, remember, before 2020, no, before 2024's November election, and he had, and he, he was basically just collecting names.

I could, I know, Riley, that. I know it was, Riley, yeah. It was Pennsylvania. It was, it was Pennsylvania, was, it was Pennsylvania, was, consent and a handful of other states. So, Micah does stand corrected on it not being Pennsylvania.

Oh, I like that. Micah stands corrected. That was good. Micah stands corrected. Hi, Steve. Hi, Ryan. Then we have another way fraud and abused kind of number. A little over a year ago, when J.D. was over visiting the Pope,

he extended an invitation for the Pope to attend the 250th birthday party here in the United States for this coming July. And the Pope said, no, he didn't think he was going to make it. And has since scheduled himself for a visit to the island where most of the refugees out of Africa first show up. And I'm going to go there and I guess have a mass and that kind of stuff. But no, JD couldn't take last year. rejection, he made a special trip over to Rome and handed him a huge big white envelope, inviting him again to the United States 250th birthday party, and the Pope again told him to

stick it where the sun don't shine. I want to know in the idea of eliminating waste fraud and abuse. Why J.D. Vance felt the need to hop on to Air Force 2, which I don't know which plane he took, and flew all the way to Italy to hand deliver an invitation to a person who had already rejected the invitation before, had not expressed any desire to change his plans and decide to come to America. Well, I didn't look. What a place with God of damn?

Well, sure it is. I mean, they specialize in that, Roger. But. Well, yeah. No, this type, no. You can, but you can, you can, you can hear Niro in the background and say, Go again, make him an offer he can't refuse. Nice little Vatican you got going here.

Be a shame of something happened to it. But in reality, the other thing, the other, the other, the other part of that is that there is nothing worse than a new convert to anything. I don't care if it's Harry Krishna, Roman Catholicism, the Freemasons. I don't, I don't, a 12-step program,

I don't care. There's nothing worse than a new convert. A non-smoker? Well, yes, yes, yes, yes. A fresh, out trans girl. Yes, okay. I'm going to go stand in the corner now, okay? No, you don't get to because I had a question.

And by the way, before I asked my question, Roger, I will add to this, hey, maybe JD flew over alongside Cash Patel because Cash just loves to watch the men's hockey. Ah, man. No, Steve, you said earlier via an email, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. in the tantrum that it went narrow through. Would you care to elaborate, please? I can't. There was a couple comments that he talked about,

I think he made of you said like a global cabal or something like that. There was, there were two particular comments. I can't remember off top of my head what they specifically were. I don't, I don't know if you heard the same things that I did, but I was like, oh,

I see what's going on here. See, I, I seem to recall the word cabal. And that was another one of those moments where I thought, wow, you know, the Trumpstein files really are ever present in what's left of his mind. Yeah. Global cabal of, you know, perverts and sex traffickers. Yeah.

Because, I mean, isn't that the, wasn't that the fundamental basis of the entire cucumber conspiracy? And it turned, and it turned out they were right. They were right. You know what? I know people may think I'm crazy, but I'm beginning to think that the cue ball was on to some, a cue balls or cue ball was onto something. Well, what they were, what they were doing, Steve, is they were trying. This is Edgar Allan Poe.

I mean, I'm not Edgar Allen. This is Edgar, no. The purloined letter, hiding something in plain sight. Mm-hmm. It's everything we say about everything they say is either. confession or projection. It never ends. I think you're completely right. And whoever it was that posited that theory that the real cue was Bannon, you know, we had that quote from Bannon yesterday or the day before

where he said in an email to Epstein, we've got to rehabilitate your reputation. And the first thing is to get rid of the pedophile rap and highlight your status as a philanthropist? Well, what better way to cover for Jeffrey Epstein's monstrous crimes than to say that somebody else was doing it, and they were all Democrats? Yep. Did you see, I saw an article where basically, and I only mentioned this because you mentioned Bannon, that basically Bannon has gone dark. when it comes to talking about the Epstein files.

And apparently there's a lot of maggots who are noticing this, like, what's this all about? Exactly. No, continue, please. No, I'm just saying. And it reminds that that makes me think that, well, first of all, he is up to his eyeballs in it. And I'm just curious to see what the maggots do in terms of, where he sits going forward particularly with uh you know as much as i can't stand her no matter what no matter no matter what uh marginal taylor taylor taylor marginal trailer queen marginal trailer queen

i'm curious to see if she ever goes back on his show because of this and she comes out against him at least in this one little part interesting he's he is he's knee deep oh no he's chest deep in this shit oh i think i think i think he may be the shit because as I tried to sort of pull it together a couple of days ago, if you remember how we began talking about the cucumber conspiracy, well, it all begins with the release of the hacked emails from the Russian troll farm. handed to WikiLeaks and Julian fucking Assange, who then gleefully spread it around the world,

all the while Russia sat on the compromise they got from hacking the RNC. And that's where the emails about adrenachrome and Hillary Clinton drinking infant blood and all. that's where it all came from and I would bet you that that shit is in those hacked RNC emails but there's never been one damned iota of energy expended not one single jewel in trying to get hold of those files feel free to tell me I'm off my meds and need to go take them real quick if this just sounds completely preposterous. Listen, if the Trump years have told us anything,

they have told us that all bets are off and everything's on the table. I mean, how much, let's just think about in the last few months, how much that has come out in the last few months would we have said two years ago or even a year ago, nah, it won't be, nah, that won't happen. and I'm not just talking about Epstein. I mean, everything. How many times did we say it can't get worse than this? I confess I said it.

Well, look. But look. Okay. Best most obvious example. The 2024 election cycle. When people began reading Project 2025 and began being horrified at the statements in plain English of what they plan to do to people in this country that they don't like.

And intrepid journalists stuck cameras and microphones in nitwit Nero's face and said, what about 2025? I've never read it, but I've heard there's some bad stuff in there. I don't even know what it is, but I've heard there's some bad stuff. transparently for verifications and the multimillionaire for-profit media said, oh, okay, that's good enough for us. God damn, Joe Biden's so old? I mean, I remember it, Steve.

And it makes me, oh, the word furious fails in this instance. Poplectic doesn't even get there. they told us these fascist maggots stood in their rallies and screamed mass deportations now and here we are an American citizen is dead and migrants are dead and there's no accountability whatsoever yes exactly and do you remember the pre this is what really was so sickening to me was during the R&C, those pre-printed fucking signs saying mass deportations now,

which is right the fuck, excuse my French, that is right out of the Nazi playbook. Right out of there. And who do you think printed those? Stephen Miller. Heritage Foundation. Yep.

Or some other similar shady-ass super pack. What is really kind of ironic is that some of the logic behind this tariff case the Supreme Court just put down were threads from the put down of Joe Biden's attempt to eliminate some student loan debt.

They found that Biden didn't have the statutory authority to do what he was doing because it dealt with the misappropriation of tax money and that kind of stuff. And they use the same logic against Trump's Paris. And I hate to be the negative one. Hello, everyone. I was waiting for Tristan to chime in on the Josh Marshall thing.

Yeah, I just, I read that. How did you know I got, yes. Well, I said it here, didn't I? I didn't, I couldn't see it all because there's a paywall. Oh, yeah. Well, you could see, you can see a little bit of it. enough. But Josh Marshall from the talking points memo brought up an interesting point, and that, you know, and that is that this, this Supreme Court, as much as it makes Trump mad, this decision only applies to the Aeitha, which is the International Emergency Economic Powers Act or whatever. And he's going to just pivot to using the Trades Act now of 1974 Trades Act. Well, and that's what he meant when he said.

Yeah, I'm still going to do it anyway. Right, exactly. Also, you were talking about super PACs, Roxanne. There's a new, there's a new pack out there. It's the anti-Zionist, anti-Israel pack. I think it's called AZI PAC or something. And, yeah, there are a bunch of anti-Semitic. right-wing jerk-offs who are trying to pollute the actual legitimate anti-Palestine,

or sorry, not anti-Nin-Jahu, you know, pro-Gaza people into buying their nonsense. That sounds an awful lot like a pro-A-PAC front group to me. Yeah, Astor-Turf group. And by the way, you know, the $10 billion that Nitwit Niro, stole for himself and I'm going to put it into the board with peace. And I've already gotten $7 billion from other countries. Can I ask the question? Go ahead.

I'm sorry. Yeah. But it's all part of the grift. They will end up depopulating Gaza. And it's going to be Las Vegas. Just like Todd and South Carolina said years ago now, it's all just going to be. some sort of Vegas on the Mediterranean. Monaco with Tabuli.

And it's infuriating. And while we are on the topic, I would be remiss if I did not know. Is this on anybody's, is this shown up in anybody's feed? Associated Press headline, Israeli settlers kill 19-year-old Palestinian-Americans, officials

send witnesses say The dateline is today. Mukmas West Bank I don't know why they call them settlers, they're terrorists, they're colonizers, it's the very least.

Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank shot and killed a Palestinian American man during an attack on a village, the Palestinian Health Ministry and a witness said Thursday, Raid Abu Ali, a resident of Mukmas, said a group of settlers came to the village

Wednesday afternoon where they attacked a farmer prompting clashes after residents intervened. Israeli forces later arrived. They always later arrive. We know, I mean, this is top. Israel is only the size of New Jersey.

Later arrived, and during the violence, armed settlers killed 19-year-old Nasrallah Abu Siam and injured several others. The army helped out by shooting tear gas, sound grenades, and live ammunition. The Israeli military said, oh, those were riot dispersal methods. And we only did it because we heard the Palestinians were throwing rocks, not because the fucking terrorists were murdering a Palestinian American. Now, on the other hand, because we have to do the on the other hand part, on the other hand, if this had been an American Israeli citizen murdered by a Palestinian,

they'd have to shoot Jake Tapper in the neck with a Thorazine dart to get him to calm the fuck down or any other member of the multimillionaire for-profit media. but an Israeli terrorist in the occupied territories where they have no business whatsoever gunning down an American citizen. Ho-hum, yon, meh. Abu Ali said, when the settlers saw the army, they were encouraged and started shooting live bullets. And they clubbed those who were injured with sticks after they had fallen to the ground. Jesus wept. but just as an experiment,

don't go looking for it. Just look at the feeds you follow day by day and see if this shows up anywhere. I'm sure they're aware of it in like Dearborn, but will they be aware of it in busted knuckle at the Second Baptist Church and herpetological sanctuary come Sunday? Will they pray for the Palestinian-American?

murdered by Israelis? Fuck, no. It just makes me sick. There's a media blackout going on. Sorry. That's okay. It's just exhausting. Well, never since the Epstein files and all this nonsense has been going on,

the media's stop covering Gaza because it just doesn't exist anymore. Well, I think Sage Todd also pointed out sometime back that, you know, yeah, very relatively. short period of time, they'll say, well, you know, Palestinians used to live here, talking about Gaza, and their reply will be, what's a Palestinian? Gaza may turn out to be the single most successful genocide in recent human memory. And isn't that just sickening to say? Sorry. Oh, and from that to something far more enjoyable, I mentioned this to you, Steve, in seeing if you were going to be in the Buckeye state,

sometime around mid to late March. One of my favorite performing artists has a concert coming up in a place I'd never heard of in my entire born days. Nelsonville, Ohio. It turns out it's about halfway between Athens and Columbus, and there's an old opera house there and Patterson Hood, the front man for the drive-by truckers, will be there.

And so too will Victoria and I. And I think, you know, not that Patterson needs any promotional help or anything, but I think tickets are still available, and they're very, very reasonably priced. So if you're in the Columbus area and you'd like to hang out and listen to some really cool music, check it out and come down and maybe say hi i was thinking like jake and columbus and you steve and others in the i'll see i'll see if i'll see if i'm there at that time um i just uh sign i i just had agreed to some some terms on a contract so i'm doing some contract work here in new york for a little bit to make make some extra money for my move so i may not be able to get down

there at that point, but I will try. I think it would be wonderful if you could, but, you know, not like I'm twisting your arm. Twist away. Twisting the night away. I don't think Patterson's going to play that one. Yeah. But with any luck. Is there any good news?

Is there any good news? Even a smidgen of good news. I was trying my best there. I mean. Yeah, I know. I know. I mean, that's some good news. But, I mean, as a general matter, is there any macro good news anywhere? Well, one of the members of the women's U.S. hockey team proposed to her beloved in public.

And those two ladies, I hope, will be very happy together. And damn, the goalie for the women's hockey team, she was she was just a wall the american women's hockey team outscored all of their opponents by some insane double digit number to two I wouldn't oh my god

two they gave up two goals during the entire competition yeah and I was rooting for Canada oh I understand but the girl the girl from Vermont that just died golden giant slalom one by a minute and 25 seconds in slowlum that's a lifetime

yeah in slalom that's everybody else just watching did i say minute they meant 1.25 seconds that's still a lifetime in slalom that's a huge lead yeah the minute and 25 seem no really did anybody else going to do this today oh and i hope i hope uh christopher pops by because i wanted to give him the results of uh the great italian hot beef the sandwich experiment here. I have to say it was an unqualified success. Fantastic bread. The frozen Italian hot beef was really, really good.

And it took some doing, but I got both the hot and the sweet jardinera. We decided we like the, well, Victoria likes the sweet. I like a mix of both, as Christopher suggested. but it was like a little Chicago here on the banks of West Virginia's River. Are we all just kind of exhausted with the, I mean, that's a stupid question. I mean, we are

one year and one month today into this shitstorm. And it's meant to be exhausting. It's meant to make people give up. I mean, January was like, what, three years? Yeah, right. It was at least 120 days. Oh, but I do have, and it's not good news, but I have a question because I feel like I was really missing something here. A couple of nights ago, I was on air, and I began seeing stories cross about how noted Republican moderate Susan Collins had decided to be the 50th vote. for the maggots in the Senate on the SAVE Act. You know, it passed the House barely and went to the Senate.

And people were saying, and then J.D. Vance will come in and be the 51st tie-breaking vote. I really do need a little help here. How does that bill become, get out of the Senate with 51 votes when the filibuster is still a going concern? somebody please pick this one up and run with it because I don't understand let me see if I can find the story it doesn't it needs 60 votes it doesn't get out of the Senate there it is from something called democracy docket Susan Collins hands Trump the 50th vote against free and fair elections main senator Susan Collins made news by adding her name is the 50th Senate supporter of the Save America Act, a massive voter suppression bill being

pushed by Donald Trump. Maga conservatives cheered her addition for two reasons. First, it means that if the bill comes to the Senate floor, Vice President J.D. Vance is positioned to cast the tie-breaking vote in favor of passage. Equally important, they hoped her support signaled that the bill was moderate or reasonable. I mean, I know you can use a simple majority in cases of budget reconciliation, but you can only do that like once in a term or something and i think they've already burned up their one on that so i mean people are panicking out there running out and trying to get their real IDs and getting their birth certificates in order and or or or their passports or i comment yeah i'm waiting yeah i just i'm looking at a USA today article um and it says here that

While officials report the SAVE Act has the support of 50 votes in the Republican-controlled Senate, John Thune warned that they are not, quote, not even close in the votes needed to break a filibuster by Democrats that vehemently opposed the legislation. Well, I mean, this is kind of assuming that the Democrats have the fucking fortitude to mount a filibuster. I can just see Schumer just be like, well, we tried. Oh, hold on. I was just going to say there has to be a strongly worded letter in there somewhere. Exactly. But hold on, Tristan.

I mean, this filibusters don't work anymore like they worked in Mr. Smith goes to Washington if they ever did. This is simply a matter of they will have a cloture vote. And if they can't get 60 votes, it fucking dies. By the way, the Senate passed HR1 on July 1st, 2025, the 51-50 vote. And that was the big, bad, beautiful bill. So, yes, they burned it for this session for a reconciliation. You know what it sounds to me, Roxanne, that the article that you read didn't quite, doesn't seem to quite understand what the actual rules of the Senate are.

Well, I think you're right, but I'm always a bit... But you don't want to take chances. Well, yeah, but I'm also always a bit concerned that... And because it can happen on... It doesn't just happen on the maggot side. You've got people who are pumping disinformation on our side, too. And if people read that and thought, oh, well, J.D. Vance is going to break the tie. All is lost.

Fuck it. I quit. I'm never going to be able to vote. I won't bother to vote. in November, well, that's as good as passing the SAVE Act in the first place. Right. 100%. But the bottom line is that it sounds to me like from that quotation from John Thune is that they need 60 votes and they don't have them.

It's probably not going to pass. God, these people fucking hate democracy. They hate it. Well, I want to go back to the dim leader maladministration. It's not that they hate democracy, because we've never been particularly good at that. They hate freedom. Why do they hate freedom? Why are they opposing the war?

He tried to kill my daddy. Happy Friday, everybody. Hey, Chris. I have a question, Roxanne. What countries are good at democracy? Because I don't see any European country good at democracy, certainly. It's all a matter of how you define it, though, isn't it? because if you go all the way back to the Federalist Papers,

and I will never forget when, and by the way, Micah said she had to bail, so we'll catch up later, Micah. But James Madison says in the Federalist Papers, listen, we'll sort of democratically elect the House, and whatever kind of a government that we come up with, We'll call it democracy. I mean, it's there in print. And, of course, it was never democracy.

But look, even Athenian democracy wasn't democracy. Because the only people who could vote were the menfolk. The free menfolk. You know, that's democracy for those that the democracy think matter. You see what I mean? I do, but that still begs the question, which countries can we look to as good at it? I don't know. I think the closest example might be what we just saw happen in South Korea, maybe.

Or Peru? Peru just impeached its president and threw him the hell out. Or threw her out. So are they perfect? Absolutely not. Nope. But they're good examples of what can do to pay some kind of. rights. I mean, I'm so old I can remember when Republicans threw a hissy because some

Democrats said that the Constitution of the United States is not the bestest gall-danged operating system for a government ever in the universe forever under God, amen, today. They're gall-d. It's not even close. It's not even remotely close. I mean, true democracy means every citizen gets to vote. Every citizen has a say-so. So if we talk, you know, and that's why the Constitution has that more perfect union language in it, which by the way, the Supreme Court, you know, fat dead Tony Scalia and the bunches. Ah, all that preamble language.

That's just, that's just, that's just a flourish. That's just florid purple prose. No addressing. No dressing. Well, another example of democracy. Another example of democracy could be, you know, Switzerland. I mean, those people, they elect their president once a year. You can only be president for a year, and they vote on all sorts of different bills

and, you know, ballot measures and stuff like that. It's very fluid, very direct, probably the most direct democracy we have. Well, I mean, there's some direct democracy that takes place in the United States. And again, to get all nerdy and thank you, Dr. Bill, I love you dearly. There were discussions during the framing of the Constitution about whether democracy was even possible, and those discussions have gone on well past the ratification, whether democracy is even possible in a large population. And that's why they came up with this idea of representative democracy. But, you know, tell me if I'm wrong, Jeremy, you know, anybody else up in New England, you know, you have little towns in Vermont where people actually sit in meetings and decide which potholes to fill in.

By a democratic vote. But I don't think, I don't, I side with whoever was arguing in the ratification debates insofar as I don't think, I don't think democracy pure. democracy people sitting around scratching names on ostracons and throwing people out of the country for a few years or whatever i i don't think that's functionally possible it's it's like it works on a it works on a tribal basis or a small group basis but when you're talking about millions of individuals or a million individual individuals no it won't work doesn't work I would go I would go one further than that I would say it's not even desirable well you would be then you would be you would be in good stead with uh plato I mean I

yeah I'm the more I experienced democracy the less I am a Democrat small D well the you know Plato felt like you know stupid democracy stupid people in a democracy killed the wisest, most compassionate, decent man he had ever known in his life, Socrates, on claims, you know, and given the atmosphere in which we now find ourselves, on claims that Socrates had corrupted the youth. I would posit that the closest pure democracy, the Gibralcy movement in Israel up through maybe the, middle 1960s for the Kibbutzine itself.

I'm not talking to all of Israel. I'm just talking the actual Kibbutzim. I had a couple of high school, well, actually from the fifth grade all the way through high school, and I'm still friends today, who spent a year living in Israel at a Kibbutzim in 1964.

And actually one of them was written a book that I can't remember the name, of now talking about how the Kibbutzim operated, and I've had several discussions with them. They were two different Kibbutzim, so they were twin sisters, but they went over to Israel, they went to two different Qibbutzim, and slightly different experiences, but the operation of the Kibbutzim appeared to be a true form of democracy where everybody got together. then if you have a group like that, I seem to recall from my speech communication days that the largest population that can function in that kind of a society is about 300, 350 people. Any more than that, you start falling down and that's where city councils have to be elected to be the representative democracy number to get.

anything done. And of course, there are those along the way who have rightly referred to democracy as mob rule. I mean, you want an example of pure democracy? This is going to sound a little nuts. The pirates of the late 17th and into the early 18th century operated on democratic principles. They elected their captain. and when they decided to unelect their captain,

well, that came with consequences. But captains were elected based on their ability to get booty. I know they were in the Caribbean, not like that. But in their ability to get money. I'd love to get booty. I knew somebody wouldn't leave it alone. Yeah, but yeah, that was that was pure bloody democracy. You've seen in this country what happens when we allow the stupid and the ignorance of vote.

I mean, here we are. The people have spoken. God damn them. Who said that? I don't know. I did say that. I mean, that's it. I've heard it before, but I have no idea who said it.

That's a real quote. You got here just after, I don't know if you heard, but I name checked you, Christopher. Yeah, I did hear. I did hear. I was listening, but I had to finish up work. It was wonderful to hear. So you got it, you did it, you did it wet, I assume. Oh, God, yes. Good for you. I mean, sloppy fucking mess. Uh-huh.

Sloshing all over the plate, good. You get it right. I made sure I wasn't wearing anything I cared about. A white. Yeah, right, exactly. And so I've got another frozen bucket of it, and I'm going to take it home with me. And Ferg needs a little cheering up. And so I'm going to take – I got another six-pack of the abruitsino's sub-buns. Stuss some good bread.

And – I've been knowing on – oh, go ahead. And I'm going to take it, take it home and make sure he has all the fixings. and so because he hasn't had anything. This is the story from way back, but he, you know, some of y'all may remember when he went out west and learned the cowboy trade for a while. He loved it out there, but he got homesick.

And then he came back and he decided he wanted to stay around for a while and wanted to go back. And so we put him on a plane, and the first leg was Charleston, CRW, to, uh, to O'Hare. And by the time he got to Chicago, he had decided, no, he didn't want to go after all. It was a very long day.

I think I may have missed the show. But while he was in O'Hare, he had enough money in his pocket to get a Chicago hot dog and an Italian hot beef. And so we were talking a couple of nights. ago and he says and I after no he only got the hot dog

because I said I'm going to bring you the makings of an Italian hot beef sandwich and he said well it'll be great it'll be great because well I flew to Chicago for a hot dog once

but I got kids now and I don't think I'm up to doing that again felt pretty stupid really at least he's still got a sense of humor I pulled a batch of Rogers peppers out today and had those for lunch yeah the top of the bacon yeah that was really good perfect lunch

oh those hands on that cheesy left for me too I hope you tried out the air fryer on those that's exactly what I did they turned out perfect fantastic off to the side since it's after

the 15th of February. I've started my seeds to germinate in about four or five days. I'll get them into little peat pots and put them on the heat mat out in the greenhouse and start in my garden. Well, since I'm going to be home for a couple of weeks, Roger, I'm going to try to, I'm going to try to start though. It's, well, I don't know. It may still be too cold, but I was going to get the lamps and the heat mat and the soil and everything and try to start. my herbs for my Frankfurt hagrunzos come may. So good luck. Cross your fingers.

Yeah. We're still stepping down kind of low. I mean, they're on the counter on the heat mat out here in the mother-in-law unit where I have a little bit more power than inside the house. And Chris will understand that. I start, I sprout the seeds on paper towel. and after they're sprouted, I take the, I think they call it a hemistat, a little pair of pleaser-y things that doctors use to put stitches in you and take them out and brooch clip. That's it.

Put them in dirt in the six-packs and then I transplant them into the four-inchers and if necessary I then transplant them again into the gallon pots before they actually go out in the ground. Well, you give me hope because I got spoiled by this, you know, week or so of decent weather. And the fact that we have a lake effect snow, winter storm warning for Sunday just kind of gutted me. Yeah, we've got a Nor'Easter coming up that we're supposed to get, they said, at least five up to 12 inches of snow going Sunday to Monday. Yeah, we're up to five inches. But the funny thing is, it's not, now, Parkersburg is, ah, not far, it's not that far from Cleveland, which, of course, sits on Lake Erie.

Where I live on the gorge is considerably south and east, but there's no winter storm morning for Parkersburg for Lake Effect Snow, but there is for the gorge. I guess maybe it's an elevation thing. I don't know. Is it Lake effect snow, or is it a, noreaster. No, it's lake effect snow. I mean, the warning says lake effects snow. Interesting. But what lake?

Well, I mean, anytime we get lake effects snow, it's coming off of Lake Erie. Oh. And blowing out of the northwest. But I sincerely don't need any more 20 below nights. Because again, and well, here's here's the pitch. everything everything that goes toward keeping this program on the air has mostly been toward heat i mean it ate up january it ate up part of december it ate up most of december it ate up january it's eaten up most of february and your umbelosis needs a break and well like i said if we could raise four hundred and fifteen bucks

this evening, then we'd start next week with a deficit of $3,000, which is half of an entire broadcast month, to do in one week, and that would work out to, well, $600 a night to close the month of February. It's brutal. And I wish I was out just, you know, living the life of Riley, but, hmm, I'm, well, hell, I don't even know who Riley was. Well, I do know who Riley is. How's your life, Rye?

I think she and Micah are off doing something fun on a Friday night. At least I hope to goodness they are. But we had winds blow through here north of 50 miles an hour earlier today. Victoria had a doctor's appointment, and you kind of count on your major medical centers to have good backup for their electrical systems. We were sitting there waiting to be called back, and there went to power, and it's been going in and out all day all over this area. Because, I mean, these are some howling winds.

Like I said, it scared the poor doggies badly last night. The rain, but they're so sensitive, they're so sensitive to their world. The first raindrop hadn't even hit the roof. and one of the doggies was already in my lap, and bless her little heart, it just broke me. She was trembling. She was so scared. And then two minutes later, the rain starts pouring on the roof, and a couple of minutes after that came the thunder and the lightning. And none of them liked it.

They can hear the thunder coming along before we can. Yes. No thunder shirts for the little babies? No, but, I mean, they're not mine, so, but. Right. that's not a bad idea. Oh, is there a birthday coming up, Tori's parents, either one?

Um, I don't. I don't know. Okay, Mother's Day. Yeah, yeah. Mother's Day, Father's Day. Uh-huh. I just got a message saying they're 70 miles out,

so you may not have to go over there after all. And the babies will be so happy to see their mama. and their daddy. And the kitties will be happy, too. I only talk about the doggies, but the kitties are wonderful as well. One of them, one of the kitties will come up, as Victoria's mama told me, about 15 minutes before you're ready to wake up. She comes in, jumps on the bed, yowls in your ear, and head butts you.

Anybody else want to jump in? Roosevelt? You haven't said anything. That's Ben. Oh, that's Ben. Okay. I bet. Well, I feel less dumb.

Hi, Ben. I'd like to offer a challenge. Oh, please. Thank you. Not, I can't do a whole lot, but I can offer a $10 challenge. It's a, it's a Chanel went across the rainbow bridge this past week challenge. Oh. Yes, my roommate's dear, dear French bulldog.

Uh, went across the rainbow bridge this past, this past week. Oh, sorry. Yeah, she, it was time. She wasn't doing well. She was having seizures on a consistent basis. My roommate said she had a seizure that lasted like 20 minutes. 20 minutes. Yes.

And he had taken her to the emergency room or I guess the hospital. She had a series of seizures. She kept having them. And he based, or no, this happened at home. and he basically said this is just no this is no life for a pooch she was such a dear little dear dear dear little dog and he said it just wasn't it was not it was not a life for her to lead so she crossed over to the rainbow bridge on Tuesday on Wednesday oh I'm so sorry but thank you Steve because yeah a $15 challenge oh 15 well that would get us down to

uh uh 34 no 33 85 33 85 33 85 if somebody's got 15 bucks to jump in with. That'd be super helpful. I'm sorry, I can't do more. I just... You're moving, man. Yeah, that's part of the issue. Oh, Ralphs, thank you.

So you said initially 10, and Ralph's met that. So we'll just say that we are down to 33, 3395. Thank you, Ralph. I'll throw in 15 as... in any way, so it'll be 20, it'll be 25 instead of go to the deficit. Okay. 3390. Okay.

Thank you. Thank you, Steve. Thank you so much. It's so kind. Billable said, lake effect snow. Your abode is nowhere near the Great Lakes. So how in the hell can you get lake effect snow? Oh, well, by that same logic, Christy Nome, deploys border patrol nowhere near the border,

since, such as Chicago and Portland. I know what you're getting at, Billable, but you could have gone. all this week and twice on Sunday without comparing me to Krusty the nasty Nazi gnome I'll have you know that the llama is

well she's pawing at the earth and her nostrils are flaring she didn't take kindly to that billable but no truly that's what they call it lake affects snow the winds come howling down

pick up the water above the Great Lakes and then dump it on everything south. Speaking of llamas, did anyone hear the story that Pam Bondi is going to get hard and tough on animal cruelty folks? Oh, yeah, that one is going to go after them hardcore, right? Yeah, does that mean she's going to turn herself in? Well, herself and Krusty Nome. Obviously, she's start with her. Yeah, Krusty, right.

And that's what I meant. chain put the leg irons on her ass that poor goat and Lewandowski too just for no you can't put the chains on Corey Lewandowski he'd enjoy it and then there'd be a mess to clean up fuck it I'm giving myself a for that how much do we the taxpayer people have to pay for that fucking um at uh first lane plane plane oh 70 million 70 million dollars you talk about talking about the one with the on-sweet queen-sized bed for her and Corey? Yes, I heard about that. A crusty queen bed, yeah.

Fuck, man. I don't want to pay for that. Well, here we are again. My after-show snack is pining for the fjords. Krusty Queen Bed. I repeated it just so everybody else could enjoy the effects of that thought. God. They can't even decide to use it.

It does make you wonder why she was so upset about her blankie being left on board. Because it was a stained blue blankie, Roger. She stole it for the goat. That's why she killed the goat. Get the blanket. Well, you know, I mean, they could do the same thing they did to the stained blue dress. They could test it for DNA. I'll bet it wouldn't be crusties.

Or at least it wouldn't all be crusty. It would be crusty, but it wouldn't be crusties. Well, it's been a long week, and I guess it was, I guess it was just... Man, we're in the gutter now. Yeah, you know, just ran it right into the gutter and... And the jalopy, right into the gutter. Well, I have to take issue... Pop the tires and burnt the rims.

I was just going to say, I have to take issue with Billable Rick. just technically Portland and Chicago and Minneapolis are near the border. They're trying to keep those illegal those damn illegal immigrants from Canada from coming down to our country.

Jesus. I do believe I do believe the Customs Border Patrol ice folk are able to operate within 100 miles of an international border.

How far is it from Minneapolis to the border? Hang on here, Chris. Hang on here, Chris. Just a minute. Every international airport is a point of entry, and therefore they can operate within 100 miles of any international airport. Along with the coast and northern south border.

Yeah, that's what I was going to say, the seaport. I have harbored because I've been around I've been in West Virginia quite a while Roger as you will know and I've flown in and out of CRW Yeager Airport well now well now like in the last year suddenly it's Yeager International Airport there aren't a lot of non-stops out of Yeager there used to be one to Dallas there's probably still one to DC. There's one to Chicago, but I don't, I don't know.

Myrtle Beach is not an international destination. We get a few flights to Myrtle. Yeah, that's the hillbilly redoubt south. But I think they just stuck international on there so that the goons could work in West Virginia, because otherwise 100 miles from the we don't have no i mean let's see the great cana empties into the ohio the ohio empties into the mississippi but sorry that doesn't work as a seaport well uh interestingly enough in mckinleyville california there is an airport designated as ac v and at one time

some Canadian Air Force planes came down to play around dealing with force, fire, fighting, and that kind of stuff. And when the Canadians came in,

they had to get in touch with the customs agent who was in Eureka because, you know, it's a port town, come up to the airport to pretend at being a Customs Border Enforcement officer who stamp

passport for the Canadians that came in. And very shortly after that, ACV is an airport who flies regularly over to Reading, down to San Francisco, San Jose.

Every once in a while, there's an airline that comes in and flies to Vegas and Reno and up to Portland. It's basically a regional airport, but they labeled it, as an international and it still has that designation on it as an international

airport. Well, I just did my own Horn Ad Hoc Research Committee and no, I think it's exactly as what I thought. They just called it international so that the goons can operate because there is

not one single solitary flight outside the United States from Yeager Airport. You've got non-stop to Chicago, Newark, D.C., Mertl, Mertl, Charlotte, Tampa, Orlando, and Hotlanda. They used to have a non-stop to Dallas. I flew it once. But no.

So, you know, how do you get away with calling yourself an international airport when you don't have any international destinations? There's no customs there. There's no nothing there. What I found interesting when we came back after our trip to Alaska, when we left Vancouver, Canada, we landed at the domestic terminal in Portland, Oregon. Because we had, quote, left Canada in our boarding process. We went through, in essence, we went through U.S. customs and immigration as we departed Canada, which I thought was really strange. I expected to come into the international portion of the Portland airport,

and we landed in the domestic terminal and just walked off the plane and disappeared into the crowd. Those were former days, weren't they? Well, what I've come to understand is the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol has stationed themselves at foreign airport. Because if they find somebody, quote, trying to sneak in, unquote, it saves the government money by being able to deport them directly from the foreign airport. port back into that foreign country rather than waiting for them to arrive in the United States and then having to deport them back to the foreign country. Jesus. Ah, the tangled webs we weave, right?

I am going to have to get out of here because Victoria just dropped me a note and said, I'm done. And I hate to have her just having to sit around the workplace and wait. So, again, we'll be back to somewhat normal scheduling when I get back to the gorge. But I wanted to share this because this is just horrifying. It's the antithesis of the good news that Steve was looking for. Ralph's just sent this along. Breaking, Trump administration strips Social Security benefits from a black American cancer patient

by claiming that she is not lawfully present in the United States. Oh, my God. Well, surely to goodness, they must have a good reason. No, they don't and don't call me Shirley. This is what Trump's intentional cruelty looks like in 2026. Ramona Rake Straw, aged 59, was born at Parkland Hospital in Dallas in 1966. She has never left Dallas County. not for vacation, not for work, not for anything, and yet somehow the federal government has decided she is not lawfully present in the U.S. Her crime? Existing while sick and black.

Reg Straw has battled kidney disease for decades. She endured a transplant. She returned to dialysis. In 2024, she was diagnosed with cancer. Through it all, she survived on supplemental security income, her only source of income and Medicare Part B. October the payment stopped. Why? Because her immigration status was suddenly under review. I'm not an immigrant, she said. I've never even left Dallas County, let alone the country. Let that sink in, a lifelong Texan, born in an American hospital, fighting cancer, forced to march down to a social security office with her birth certificate in hand to prove she belongs in the country where she was born and still she received a letter stating we cannot pay you benefits because you are not lawfully present in the u.s holy shit well you know that's maddening this is what the maggots voted for you voted for this well just one of those people yeah i know but i do i have to uh i have to get

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